Wandering Adventure Party

@Tim_Eagon On a gas grill, I would not gamble on all the piping and vents somehow having made it though undamaged.

@existentialcomics Irrelevant though, as managers are never held accountable either.

Reading a 45 year old Star Wars comic about the Rebels coming across a disabled Star Destroyer and boarding it. And the moment someone sees dead Imperial officers, instantly the command goes out to mask up and only let the medical droids touch anything. And when the crew comes back to base they immediately set up a containment facility to have everyone checked up by droids.

I have never heard of any such thing happening in a Space Plague story before. What daring writing!

#SciFi #StarWars

When you post screenshots of your work, you have to mention the name of your game, animation, or whatever in the post and tag it. Even if all you ever post on your account is updates about the game, or the name of your account is the name of your game.
Your followers will know what you are showing. Anyone else might not. An attention grabbing image with no identifier what it is showing is needlessly missed exposure.

#gamedev #indiedev

@kyonshi My current obsessive hobby for the last year is working on my big master list of culturally significant or personally important video game released from 1994 to 2001.

I often open it up and start looking for ways I could expand on it purely because I am having fun and enjoying the process.

@lexfeathers There is way too much AI in duckduckgo now. Yes, it can (seemingly) all be disabled, but we shouldn't have to.
It should not even be an option in the first place.

#AI #AIslop #slop

@Da_Gut @Tim_Eagon I would assume it involves a big needle.

@Taskerland Do you actually like interacting with RPG people?

Terminator: Future Shock was released 30 years ago in December 1995.

A game that has been pretty much forgotten for a long time, and I've never seen anybody talk about. But it's noteworthy for having been developed by Bethesda. This is what they were doing between Arena and Daggerfall. And apparently, and surprisingly for a movie licensed game, it was considered to be really quite good.

#1995InVideoGames #90sGames #VideoGameHistory #retrogaming #Terminator #Bethesda

@Taskerland It's always been changing. There is a considerable shift in the presentation from 1st to 2nd edition in 1993, and again to 3rd edition in 2001.
But the biggest break came with the radical aesthetic overhaul of all D&D with 3.5 in 2003, when Eberron became the new default style for generic D&D. I feel from there onwards, there is no recognizable resemblance with the setting from the 80s left anymore.

I often feel tempted at taking a shot at imagining what this version of the Forgotten Realms would have been like 600 years earlier in the year 757, with even smaller cities and architecture and armor inspired by the Merovingians, Britons, and Byzantines.

It is rather "unoriginal" in aiming at being fairly straightforward medieval Europe with magic and monsters. But in the fantasy landscape of the 21st century, such a thing is everything but generic.
I really would love to see more actual medieval things in fantasy rather than 21st century people in a 21st century society having superhero adventures while wearing impractical outfits vaguely inspired by armor.

What the Forgotten Realms once were meant to be, could have been, and has long been discarded to make space for whatever corporate marketing needed the brand name for.

I was introduced to this world by Baldur's Gate in the 90s, which still tried to present its world in this image. (Though it already looked more 16th-17th century in many ways). So this still has a big pull on me.

(From the introduction of the very first Forgotten Realms box from 1987.)

#ttrpg #ForgottenRealms #worldbuilding

@Taskerland I'm with you.

Literally. ‍

This is worse than when I had Covid. After six days I'm still in bed, but at least my brain is back to reading and watching things for several hours per day.

@Taskerland @Printdevil From all I heard, star cooks are one of the most toxic group of professionals out there.
It's okay for food to be adequate, and for people having to wait another five minutes. Or the restaurant having three fewer tables to the reduce the maximum number of simuoltaneous orders.
It's some cooks who insist that cooking should be a martyrdom for everyone involved.

@Taskerland Running games is something where I think ADHD can be more a benefit than a hindrance. If you structure your game in a way that doesn't require juggling many things at the same time and having several books open and notes to reference at once.

@Tim_Eagon In Germany, they changed the rules from 25 to 30 years a while back.
Otherwise I could get the plate on my Golf 4 now.

@Tim_Eagon @croyle We really need Return of the Jedi too.

Somehow, The Empire Strikes Back is fine. The only pointless change I am aware of in that one is changing Vader's line when he goes back to his shuttle after the lightsaber fight. The original has more weight. (But the new one doesn't hurt.)

The only changes I know in the movie are the shot of the Wampa eating, and more looks at the outside of Cloud City, which are all good additions.

@Taskerland My mom read some to us back around 1990 and they were quite cool.
Though felt a lot like historical fiction even then. Maybe because of my mother keeping to point of old-timey things she thought for funny.

Winter on the 22nd November.
This feels like the earliest I've ever seen.

After the coolest cloudiest summer I've ever seen, which followed on the most severe drought I've ever seen.